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Living the City in Africa
Brigit ObristVeit ArltElisio Macamo
其他書名
Processes of Invention and Intervention
出版LIT Verlag Münster, 2013
主題History / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN36438015219783643801524
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XIGdOuvfCFcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Research on cities worldwide still takes its cue from cities in Europe and the US, which are seen as the standard model. However, cities in the global South are undergoing a much more rapid transformation, including multiple interlinked transitions, with Africa featuring the highest urbanization rates world-wide. Scholars therefore call for a new approach to urban studies which examines cities from a more global comparative perspective. This book discusses the new approach, which pays added attention to the role that societal creativity plays in processes of urbanization, instead of concentrating exclusively on expert-driven planning and intervention. Especially in fast-growing cities with weaker institutional capacity for interventions, the interplay between intervention and invention, between expert and societal agency, becomes more tangible and all the more significant. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 10)